Author: Gus K

All members are notified the AGM of the South Australian Brewing Club will be held on Wednesday, 21st July 2021 at 7:00 pm at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, George St, Thebarton.

AGM Agenda items:

• Welcome
• Confirmation of Minutes from the previous meeting, 15 July 2020, (read here).
• President’s Report
• Treasurer’s Report
• Election of Committee
• Club business

All members are invited to attend. The Committee looks forward to wrapping up 2020 and plans for 2021 and beyond..

Please forward any nominations for committee positions or cub business to the Secretary, by July 7th or from the floor at the meeting.

Regards,

SABC Committee

Email your RSVP or apology.

Everyone had an excellent time at our Real Ale Festival. Thank you brewers who created something for us to enjoy at the Hilton RSL.

It’s the third Wednesday of the month and that means it’s meeting week. This month we’re at Pirate Life in Port Adelaide where we will again be their guests and that often means treats and special offers.

The subject is no and low alcohol beers. PL has released their Point Nine, a 0.9% beer, and there are now many 0.0% abv beers on the shelves and they are getting better and better. How does Pirate Life brew them? 

Julien has also brewed one for us to assess.

‘Brewer’s shout’ happy hour is from 6pm- 7pm.

18 Baker St, Port Adelaide.

Members only for this one. If you’re interested in joining the club because we do cool stuff like this, join up or come to a regular meeting.

Hoodies and kit

Our new order of hoodies are in. If you expressed interest in one, log in to the shop and grab it. If they’re not bought soon they’ll be released to the wider club.

 https://shop.sabrew.com/product-category/swag/ Order ASAP and don’t miss out.

SABC Real Ale Fest this Saturday, June 5

Our next big club event is our Real Ale Festival this coming Saturday night. It’s free for members and $10 for invited guests – members have to buy their tickets.  

Please book now. Partners who are non-drinking designated drivers are OK without a ticket.

Our members have brewed a range of British ales for us to enjoy. BYO food – Uber eats, share a pizza, bring a picnic to eat for yourself. 

The venue is the Hilton RSL – 147 Sir Donald Bradman Dr, Hilton SA 5033.

It’s a great little venue with a very ‘pub’ feel to it. Bring your darts and coins for cheap pool. Their bar will be open for wine or other beer.

If you have anything that you think would help, please let us know – info@sabrew.com

Note: we’ll only be serving the beers brewed specifically for this event – there won’t be any BYO kegs. We won’t have any ice or co2 for them anyway because. Real Ale!

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June meeting at Pirate Life

Our Wednesday meeting in June will be at Pirate Life where we will again be their guests and that often means treats and special offers.

The subject is no and low alcohol beers. PL have released a 0.9 beer and there are now many 0.0% abv beers on the shelves and they are getting better and better. How does Pirate Life brew them? Member Julien has also brewed one for us to assess.

‘Brewer’s shout’ happy hour is from 6pm- 7pm.

18 Baker St, Port Adelaide.

Hoodies and kit

Our new order of hoodies are in. They’ll be available to buy online soon. https://shop.sabrew.com/product-category/swag/ Order ASAP and don’t miss out.

The club monthly meeting is this Wednesday at the Wheaty. If you’ve just joined the club, jump in. There are always new members at our meetings. We meet from 7pm in the back area of the pub. 

It’s a Q&A session. Bring along your most burning homebrewing question and get an answer from the member brains trust. It can be anonymous so you can get an answer without feeling like it’s below us. 

On the night you’ll be able to ask a question online or post it now.

ASK NOW

Tasting

We’ll be having a proper crack at tasting the Flanders Red Ale brewing by the club and barrel-aged.

Supermarket Challenge

We announced on Facebook that we’re doing a fun ‘supermarket will it brew challenge’. Get a team together or join one on Wednesday and help brew a beer using the ingredients in the mystery bag. 

We’ll give each team some credit to buy regular beer ingredients too. Your creations will be tasted in July, so there’s two months to brew and condition.

SABC Real Ale Fest

Our next big club event is our Real Ale Festival on June 5. Our members have brewed a range of British ales for us to enjoy. The venue is the Hilton RSL – 147 Sir Donald Bradman Dr, Hilton SA 5033.

It’s FREE for members and $10 for friends who are drinking – book your ticket and friend ticket now! Partners and designated drivers are OK. 

BYO food – Uber eats, share a pizza, bring a picnic to eat for yourself. 

It’s a great little venue with a very ‘pub’ feel to it. Bring your darts and coins for cheap pool. Their bar will be open for wine or other beer.

If you have anything that you think would help, please reach out – info@sabrew.com

Note: we’ll only be serving the beers brewed specifically for this event – there won’t be any BYO kegs. We won’t have any ice or co2 for them anyway because. Real Ale!

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Our regular monthly meeting is in this week at The Wheaty from 7pm.

Gary Waters will be covering aspects of the BJCP qualification including
Guidelines of how to categorise your beer, how to improve your beer and judge other brewers beers appropriately.

If you want to become BJCP accredited by joining the next intake, improve your judging or even learn how judging can make you a better brewer, this meeting is for you.

Please email the club at info@sabrew.com if you can bring a beer to the next meeting.

And, as always (if you haven’t drank it all over the holiday period!) Bottle Bingo is back on – bring a bottle, take a bottle!

The Barrel Project is now ready for collection

ATTENTION BARREL PROJECT BREWERS

It’s time to ready your kegs and cubes as our barrel project beer is ready to take home.
The filling day will be Saturday 17th April from 10am to 12pm at Gavin Pennell’s home where the barrel has been housed.

Please bring a keg or cube to fill. We will not be bottle filling at the venue.
Contact Gavin on 0412107107 if you’ve forgotten the address.

I have noted that the following brewers were involved:
Jason Armfield
Ossie Herbert
Gavin Pennell
Leon V
James T/ B Trenwith
Nick McAuley
Luke O’Brien
Sam / Luke Beard
Craig Blesing
Gerard Flynn
Andrew Dane Mevius

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SABC Winter Competition

Everything you need to know about the competition and rules are on the club’s website competition page https://sabrew.com/competitions/

It will focus on all things Lager. No other beer styles are being judged.

The winning beer, along with coveted “brewer of the year” points, will also get a special limited edition version of their winning beer released exclusively on tap at The Suburban Brew later in the year.

Of course, the winning brewer will be invited to help brew their beer at Suburban.

Dates:

3 – 10 July – Bottle drop off (strictly) at The Suburban Brew.

14 July – Judging. closed event with accredited judges only.

Wednesday 21 July – Winners announced and prizes, at the club meeting being held at The Suburban Brew.

BJCP styles and more on the comps page.

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We’ve made a few tweaks to our 2021 calendar. The winter competition bottle drop now has a window of 3-10 July. Judging is on 14 July and the winners annoucned at the meeting on 21 July.

We are also unsure if there will be a National Homebrew Conference in October 2021.

Download it as a PDF to stick on your dunny door.

Thanks to all the members and families who came to our BeerBQ yesterday at the Prospect Petanque Club. We had perfect weather for excellent members’ home brew beers, slow cooked pulled pork in crusty rolls with homemade slaw and some Petanque to work it off. 

If you missed out, make sure you put the evening of May 1 in your diary for BeerBQ2. That’s only six weeks away, best get Brewing. (TBC). 

As we had a get together yesterday, this week’s scheduled monthly club meeting at the Wheaty won’t be on. Also because it is a Fringe venue. 
Instead we are catching up for casual beers at Sparkke on Whitmore Square, City. You’d remember their brewer Carla who was a member of the brewers panel at Suburban Brew at our January meeting. 

We’ve never been to their brewery/ bar so it’s a great opportunity to check it out. 

Meet there from 7pm.

We’re excited for our first club BeerBQ for fifteen months this Sunday, March 14 from 1 pm – 5 pm at the Prospect Petanque Club, 14 – 32 Buchanan Street, Nailsworth. The weather is looking cool but fine.

We need RSVPs in ASAP so we can plan for numbers. Register here.

This is one of the two club events for financial members of the club (renew here now if you’re not). It’s also our one for families, partners and kids.

If you’re new to the club, it’s a simple concept. We put on the food and you bring your beer in kegs with serving equipment or in bottles.

It’s a great opportunity to meet other brewers and try lots of homebrew.

We’ll be setting up a two beer serving system bar and rotating through a couple of beers at a time. Brewers pour their own beers.

You don’t need to bring any serving taps or gas. We’re supplying it all. As long as you’re using corny keg/ ball lock connectors. If you’re got something different, let us know. Bottles are fine.

For food we’re serving a simple pulled pork and coleslaw roll to keep COVID safe. If you’re kids are picky, bring something along to keep their sugar levels up.

We need RSVPs in ASAP so we can plan for numbers. Register here.

There’s wine and soft drinks available at the bar and the club accepts card and cash. No BYO wine, only beer. Our ‘full winter version’ BeerBQ to invite your mates to is on Saturday, May 1.

You and the kids can also have a go at Petanque with instructions from the club members. They love showing it off so have a go.

Forward dates Calendar

The committee locked in a stack of dates and events for 2021 and they’re in our website calendar and printable calendar poster here (v1.2)

• March 14 – BeerBQ
• March 17 No meeting. Casual meet at Sparkke Whitmore Square
• April 21 – BJCP explained
• May 1 – BeerBQ
• May 19 – Tasting night (Belgian Barrel Beer)
• June 16 – Brewing Zero ABV beer at Pirate Life
• July 17 – Winter comp
• July 21 – Meeting AGM

The competition entry portal is open for our summer comp and we’re judging at our meeting on Wednesday night where’s it’s on like Donkey Kong.

Here’s a quick list of the key points;

• Entries close at 6pm sharp Tuesday. Get them in, get them paid online and get the labels printed. You need to register a new account.
• We’re at the Wheaty from 6pm all entries in by 7pm, judging starts around 7.30 when it’s all sorted.
• There are no drop off locations.
• Prizes are for financial club members only (so make sure your membership is up to date) and for the BJCP category of low abv beers.
• Vouchers are $100, $30, $20 and points towards brewer of the year.
• Hazy beers are a ‘loose’ category and ‘we’re not in it for sheep stations’. Again, club members only and $50, $30, $20.
• Everyone who comes is expected to join in judging or stewarding. You’ll be grouped to tables with experienced judges. Great experience and fun.
• Yes, we need help. Thanks for offering.
• Pay before portal closes and print your bottle labels. Do not put your name on them! We really don’t need it. Trust us.
• The competition rules are on our website.

This recent article from Crafty Pint about blind tasting hazy beers has a lot of good points. Many we’ll follow. Have a read and you’ll get where we’re coming from. Getting Blind with Crafty. How we judge

Club BeerBQ, Sunday, March 14

Sunday, March 14 from 1 pm – 5 pm at the Prospect Petanque Club, 14 – 32 Buchanan Street, Nailsworth.

How does it work? It’s simple. We put on the food and you bring your beer in kegs with serving equipment or in bottles. It’s a great opportunity to meet other brewers and try lots of homebrew.

We’ll be setting up a bar and rotating through three beers at a time.

We need RSVPs in ASAP so we can plan for numbers. Register here.

Note, this is an event for financial members of the club who are up to date with their $60 membership. It’s also for families, partners and kids. If you’re not a member you are not able to come. You can join of course here.

It’s not an open invite for anyone and not for your mate who likes beer. We’ll offer that in winter on Saturday, May 1 for BeerBQ ‘full winter version’ on our regular scheduled date too.

Forward dates Calendar

The committee locked in a stack of dates and events for 2021 and they’re in our website calendar and printable calendar poster here (v1.2)

• March 14 – BeerBQ
• March 17 No meeting. Casual meet at Sparkke Whitmore Square
• April 21 – BJCP explained
• May 1 – BeerBQ
• May 19 – Tasting night (Belgian Barrel Beer)
• June 16 – Brewing Zero ABV beer at Pirate Life
• July 17 – Winter comp
• July 21 – Meeting AGM

The committee locked in a stack of dates and events for 2021 and they’re in our website calendar and printable calendar poster here (v1.2_

First event! We are not going to promise it will happen but we are strongly confident that this time, we will have our thrice postponed BeerBQ Summer Lite.

Lock in Sunday, March 14 from 1 pm – 5 pm at the Prospect Petanque Club, 14 – 32 Buchanan Street, Nailsworth. It’s a fantastic little place under shady trees in the middle of a park between Main North Rd and Galway Ave.

If you’re new to the event, it’s simple. We put on the food and you bring your beer in kegs with serving equipment or in bottles. It’s a great opportunity to meet other brewers and try lots of homebrews.

But that’ not all! Lock in Saturday, May 1 for BeerBQ ‘full winter version’ on our regular scheduled date too.

February club meeting/ Summer comp judging

At our meeting on Wednesday, Feb 17 at the Wheaty we’ll judge the summer competition. To get it underway we’ll be there from 6 and hope to start judging by 7.30.

The entry portal is open on the Competitions page. $5 per entry, max per person. New registration required.

Prizes are vouchers $100, $30 $20 for BJCP low alcohol categories and $50, $30, $20 for the interpretation of hazy beers.

There is no drop off location. You need to bring your beer to The Wheatsheaf from 6pm. Read the other instructions in the entry portal.

Winter Competition

Heads up for keen readers. All things lager is the theme. Judged on July 17.

Support food trucks at The Wheatsheaf

For some unknown and crazy reason, the City of Charles Sturt is banning The Wheaty from having food trucks. If you’ve ever eaten there (or even not), please sign the petition at the pub. Better still, put your feelings in an email and send it to the councillors. 

The Wheatsheaf has a template of an email to start you off. 

Dear Mayor Coxon and Councilors,

(explain who you are)

I request that the Council amend the ‘City of West Torrens Council Policy – Mobile food vendors’ to allow food trucks to continue to operate at The Wheatsheaf Hotel into the future, as they have done for the past 8 years.

(any other thoughts about the benefits of food trucks in our community and specifically at The Wheaty)

Yours faithfully,

(name)

mayorcoxon@wtcc.sa.gov.au, jwood@wtcc.sa.gov.au,

kmckay@wtcc.sa.gov.au, amckay@wtcc.sa.gov.au, stsiaparis@wtcc.sa.gov.au, epapanikolaou@wtcc.sa.gov.au, gvlahos@wtcc.sa.gov.au, jwoodward@wtcc.sa.gov.au, dwilton@wtcc.sa.gov.au, dhuggett@wtcc.sa.gov.au, spal@wtcc.sa.gov.au

breynolds@wtcc.sa.gov.au, corielley@wtcc.sa.gov.au

Our two Thebarton Ward Councilors, Graham Nitschke and Dominic Mugavin, have been fully supportive of us and our trucks from the beginning, and have been working hard to help us get this change through Council. Feel free to give them a hoy to let them know we appreciate their hard work on behalf of their constituents!

gnitschke@wtcc.sa.gov.au

dmugavin@wtcc.sa.gov.au

Membership reminder

You can renew your membership online easily yourself. If it has lapsed or about to lapse, you won’t be able to RSVP to events. https://sabrew.com/join-sabc/

Forward dates Calendar

March 14 – BeerBQ

March 17 No meeting. Casual meet at Sparkke Whitmore Square

April 21 – BJCP explained

May 1 – BeerBQ

May 19 – Tasting night (Belgian Barrel Beer)

June 16 – Brewing Zero ABV beer at Pirate Life

July 17 – Winter comp

July 21 – Meeting AGM